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Easy Ways to Save the Planet
How to take saving the Earth into your own hands
“Nobody’s Right”
Latest Ken Burns documentary to explore all sides of Vietnam War
Marathon House Debate Yields “Show Me Your Papers” Sanctuary Cities Bill
Amendment lets cops question detainees’ immigration status
The Oddisee
Rising rapper journeys past ego to societal disconnect
A New Sound & Vision for RAS
Grassroots hip-hop twosome gets serious
Day Trips & Beyond: Of Texas Rivers & Texas Art
Collection expands our appreciation for nature and art
Frankenstein’s Babymama & Friends
Brooklyn’s Invulnerable Nothings bring the G-g-gothic goodness
Float Fest 2017
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HavenCon Creates Safe Spaces for Gaymers
LGBTQ gaming culture convention returns for its third year
Mondo First Look at Gravity Falls
Exclusive peek from the upcoming Disney show
DVDanger: Tales From the Hood
In the wake of Get Out, a classic anthology revisited
What Is a “Sanctionable City”?
Adler says Sessions and ICE backtrack on deportation sanctions
The World’s Best White Reaper
Kentucky crew kicks off the mosh tonight at Sidewinder
Below Her Mouth: By, For, and About Women
aGLIFF screens April Mullen’s raunchy lesbian romance
Sound on Sound 2017
Nov. 10-12, 2017 Sherwood Forest 1883 Old Hwy. 20, McDade TX www.soundonsoundfest.com Rising from the ashes of Fun Fun Fun Fest, Sound on Sound reproduces much of that festival’s winning formula – a mix of indie rock, punk, metal, hip hop, and dance music, plus comedy and action sports – while moving it to Sherwood…
In With the Old, in With the New
An epic Saturday at Old Settler’s
Adler, Mayors to Meet With Sessions
Friday AG letter to “sanctuary cities” raises new alarm
Moontower Review: Austin Towers
The range of local comedy voices was on full view at the Velv
Moontower Review: Ali Wong
Has motherhood made the Baby Cobra star a cleaner comic? No.
Budget, Contracts, and APD
Activists press City Council on police accountability
Peter O’Toole Archives Land at HRC
Peter O’Toole archives acquired by UT’s Harry Ransom Center
Austin’s Weird Homes Tour Returns!
Some of your fellow citizens are really livin’ that dream, boy howdy …
Why Record Store Day Is Great …
And why it sucks (a shopping guide)
Ben Wheatley Catches Free Fire
Director on making his U.S. action debut
The Devil’s Candy
Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town
Free Fire
A delirious shoot’em-up comedy
The Lost City of Z
A futile quest for an extraordinary place
The Promise
The Armenian Genocide as seen through a love triangle
Unforgettable
Another round of a psycho ex from hell
The Lure
The Polish Mermaid musical you never knew you needed
God Knows Where I Am
God Knows Where I Am 2017, NR, 97 min. Directed by Jedd Wider, Todd Wider, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . In early May 2008, a woman’s dead body was discovered in an unoccupied New Hampshire farmhouse by someone peering through the window, intrigued by the “For Sale” sign out front. Apparently dead…
Turn Your Yard Into a Wildlife Habitat
Preserving the environment by letting your lawn go wild
Planned Parenthood Offers Hormone Therapy
The health care provider offers its hormone therapy program at two locations
Point Austin: Prisoners of Success
The ever-elusive Austin determination to “manage growth”
Visit These At-Risk Hill Country Water Sources
While you still can
Bill of the Week: Combating Postpartum Depression
Between 2011 and 2012, nearly 200 Texas mothers died within a year of giving birth
Public Notice: Ten Things
A CodeNEXT primer, and happy Earth Day
Gay Place
Dining Out for Life raises funds for HIV/AIDS related care
APD Suspension City
Trio of suspensions lead busy week for Brian Manley
Review: Kemuri Tatsu-ya
Eastside izakaya rediscovers spirit of Austin
Death Watch: DNA Testing Denied for Rodney Reed
Reed and Pruett strike out. But justice for Duane Buck?
The Luv Doc: Soberingly Preggo
Pot, like most drugs, is pretty fucking wonderful when used recreationally
FBI Thwarts Plan for Local Man’s Mass Shooting
Steve Boehle busted for illegal possession of firearms, lying about past convictions
4/20 Brain Buzzsters
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
There is no evidence Marie Antoinette ever said, “Let them eat cake.” The phrase, “Let them eat brioche” was attributed to an unnamed princess by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his autobiography, which he wrote before Marie Antoinette’s arrival in France. According to author Michael Shore, the hand for Thing in The Addams Family belonged to Ted…
Hightower Report: Hallelujah, Trump Rushes to Aid the Needy!
America’s president, free to help the bankers
As Austin Grows, So Does the Risk of Flood
Forget the 100-year storms. City flooding happens all the time, often right in your backyard.
Making Tragedy Funny Again at Moontower Comedy
Stand-ups pull punch lines out of personal traumas
American Berserk Theatre’s For Time & Eternity
This original historical drama looks at a crisis of faith in early Mormonism honestly
Revolutionizing Batteries With Sodium
UT professor looks to jump from the lab to the marketplace
Oops!
Due to an editing error, a pull quote in last week’s News feature (“The State of Trans Health Care”) was incorrectly attributed. In fact, it was allgo Executive Director Priscilla Hale who said “Western medicine has a systemic way of providing care that dissects our bodies, and they do the same to our identities.”
American War by Omar El Akkad
This dystopian novel of a late 21st century America split by civil war shows how vengeance survives down the generations
Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity
Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes
Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave
As terminal cancer ticks down Jimmy LaFave’s life, he says the show must go on
“Jos Howard Demme: Bad Boys, Good Dogs, Everyone Else in Between”
This solo show at ATM Gallery / Studio is both romp and nightmare – Dante’s Inferno dressed up like a clown
Council: It’s Always Something
This week’s City Council, courtesy of CodeNEXT
Day Trips: Kleb Woods, Tomball
A hermit’s paradise becomes a permanent island thicket among the urban sprawl of Houston
Lege Lines: Same Old “Sanctuary”
House version of SB 4? Still terrible.
Soccer Watch
Cristiano Ronaldo scored five goals over two games to lead Real Madrid to their record seventh straight European Champions League semifinals. Their crosstown rivals Atlético Madrid advanced as well, along with Juventus and Monaco. Spanish clubs are now 42-6 against everyone else in ECL knockout rounds this decade. The semifinals are May 2 & 3,…
New French Cinema Week
Austin Film Society series restores a bit of hope for humanity
Lege Lines: Elsewhere Under the Dome
Rounding up the news left on the chamber floors
Want to Hunt and Blow Shit Up With a Tank?
New York Times insert advertises “Tank & Machine Gun Sampler Package”
Lege Lines: Bills on the Move
• The House State Affairs Committee on Monday ushered four anti-choice bills to the full lower chamber. HB 35 by Rep. Byron Cook, R-Corsicana, forces abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains; HB 200, from Rep. Cindy Burkett, R-Sunnyvale, bars women from donating their fetal tissue after an abortion; HB 2962, by Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake,…
Exploring Eco-Friendly Period Products
When Mother Earth meets Aunt Flo
Hearing on Gerrymandering Set for April 27
A hearing on congressional redistricting is set for April 27
Headlines
City Council had a very busy week, with the release of CodeNEXT maps on Tuesday (“Chill Out Day”), kickoff of budget season Wednesday, and today’s (April 20) regular meeting, without a heavy agenda but likely public advocates’ pushback on the public safety contract briefing. See “Council: It’s Always Something,” Apr. 21. More Housing, Always: Following…
Confessions of a Cheapskate Posing as an Environmentalist
Mother Earth better have my money
Nick Chu Named Pct. 5 JP
Assistant D.A. replaces retiring Judge Herb Evans
Quote of the Week
Mayor Adler says “chill out”
Decisions Await for the Fate of Oakwood Chapel
Is moving graves from under the chapel adding insult to injury?
